Good morning to the Excellencies, my respected teachers and my dear

friends. The topic of my speech is Environment. Environment is the

surrounding in which we live. It is the source of life. Our whole life is
dependent to the environment. It directs our life and determines our proper
growth and development. Good or bad quality of social life depends on the
quality of our natural environment. The need of human beings for food,
water, shelter and other things depends on the environment around us. There
is a balanced natural cycle exists between environment and lives of human
beings, plants and animals. Human society is playing vital role in
degenerating the natural environment which in turn negatively affects the
lives on this planet. All the human actions in this modern world directly
impact the whole ecosystem.
All the actions have brought a big change in this planet which resulted in
many environmental problems. Increasing demand of technologies and
industries in the modern time impacts the nature. The increasing invention of
new technologies has changed the interaction of people with environment
which permits more population to grow. The modern technologies have
immense power which has altered the whole environment in an unimagined
way. The indiscriminate use of environment is the root of ecological crisis.
Such continuous increase in the technologies and human behaviour are
correspondingly very serious. Such amazing technologies have become the
reason of economic growth in 20th century however it had dramatically
affected the natural resources.
Some of the environmental problems are rapid growth in world population,
deteriorating natural resources, diminishing forests and wetlands, erosion of
soil and coral reefs, depleting underground water, regular shortage of fresh
drinking water, vanishing plants, salinization in Africa, Asia, Latin America
and Middle East. Some other issues are loss of biodiversity, rapid extinction of
some important animal species, collapse of fisheries, rising air and water
pollution, rise in atmospheric temperature, thinning of ozone layer, spoiling
rivers, seas and underground resources.
Even though science and technology have radically altered the terms of
adaptation to the nature, we still need to adapt to the environment. Human
society is embedded in an environment. We must not forget that the human
being is first and foremost an animal, sharing living space with other animal
species in an environment on which they are mutually dependent. It is our
responsibility to save our environment and earth and make the possibility of
healthy and happy life here.